Acts 3:9-24

⁹All the people saw him walking about and praising God;

¹⁰and, when they recognised him as the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, they were utterly astonished and amazed at what had happened to him.

¹¹While the man still clung to Peter and John, the people all quickly gathered around them in the Colonnade named after Solomon, in the greatest astonishment.

¹²On seeing this, Peter said to the people, “People of Israel, why are you surprised at this? And why do you stare at us, as though we, by any power or piety of our own, had enabled this man to walk?

¹³The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has done honour to his servant Jesus — him whom you gave up and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to set him free.

¹⁴You, I say, disowned the holy and righteous one, and asked for the release of a murderer!

¹⁵The guide to life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead — and of that we are ourselves witnesses.

¹⁶And it is by faith in the name of Jesus, that this man, whom you all see and know, has — by his name — been made strong. Yes, it is the faith inspired by Jesus that has made this complete cure of the man, before the eyes of you all.

¹⁷And yet, my friends, I know that you acted as you did from ignorance, and your rulers also.

¹⁸But it was in this way that God fulfilled all that he had long ago foretold, as to the sufferings of his Christ, by the lips of all the prophets.

¹⁹Therefore, repent and turn so that your sins may be wiped away; so that happier times may come from the Lord himself,

²⁰and so that he may send you, in Jesus, your long-appointed Christ.

²¹But heaven must be his home, until the days of the Universal Restoration, of which God has spoken by the lips of his holy prophets from the very first.

²²Moses himself said — ‘The Lord your God will raise up from amongst yourselves a prophet, as he raised me. To him you will listen whenever he speaks to you.

²³And it will be that should anyone amongst the people not listen to that prophet, he will be utterly destroyed.’

²⁴Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel onwards, and all their successors who had a message to deliver, told of these days.